c w is nick conley explained. what leads russia to attack civilian targets in ukraine and the consequences such attacks have for the war with some of this is basically because they can, it seems like really they all running out of their stocks. they basically sending missiles straight from the factories to the front lines and that now basically having used a lot of missiles up last autumn, the beginning of this year they had to wait a bit to really restock. and also this is being seen as an attempt patient to create panic and chaos among ukraine civilians. to put pressure on ukraine's government to come to negotiating table and come some kind of temporary deal on russia's terms. that's not something that ukraine public opinion is open to yet, but i guess the expectation is in moscow that increasingly kind of random attacks us really and how it might cause that kind of change of mood. but it's also interesting if you kind of look how this is actually playing your cancer productively for russia. basically, it seems

w correspondent, nick conley in key. if i asked him about those latest attacks. so, terry, the late report, camino 14 fatalities in woman there. extraordinary scenes of the operation going on there to try to find more people under those ruins. we understand. well, the 100 people lived in the section of the apartment block that 9 story block that was hit. that was the epicenter of that strike. as you mentioned, there was an approach to fatalities. this is really shocking, after basically the best part of 2 months where there were no attacks fall from the front lines where cities like key of and women could more or less sleep quite sleep . com people now, once again confronted with this very dangerous reality that these air raid sirens have to be taken seriously. what do we know, nick, about how well equipped ukraine's air defense systems. all right, now we'll have different come a long way since the beginning of this war. we've heard from the cream of stay. they say that 21 of 23 russian cruise missiles were shot down. they haven't spoken yet quite how many russia

nick: heather conley of the german marshall fund, thank you very much. ♪ amna: protests are ongoing iner six people lost their lives at the covenant elementary school in nashville last week. stephanie sy reports now on the calls for action. stephanie: more than 1000 students in the nashville area walked out of their schools yesterday at 10:13 a.m., the same time the shooter opened fire at covenant elementary a week earlier. they marched to the tennesse state capitol to call for stronger gun laws. since last week, demonstrators have convened at the capitol, even entering the building to shout "save our kids" and grab the attention of lawmakers. now, tennessee house republicans are moving to expel three democratic lawmakers who joined those protests. among them, state representative gloria johnson who represents part of knox county. thank you so much for joining us. the expulsion threats stem from what you and your colleagues did in the house chamber last thursday. i understand you breached house rules when you took over e podium to lead protest chants. the republican leader says this am

conley filed a report. he joins us now from key of nick. what struck me most about the people there in your report. it was the optimism in the face of real hardship. how do you experience, did you experience that i think there was something really characteristic and kind of telling that one of those soldiers told us that basically if you lose your good spirits, you're basically done for your chances of surviving, of doing well of not coming out of there with severe trauma are pretty small, so there is a lot of very dark humor, a real sense. people just think about the next hour the next day till the next time they get out for a bit of rest. a couple of kilometers behind the front lines and really don't allow themselves too often to think about the big picture. how many months or years this might still drag on to the real sense of camaraderie that you don't get when you meet soldiers who are slightly further away from the front. where the basically, i guess that the pressure and the constant risk will force people from very different back grounds, different experiences to come together and kind of k